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D. M. ARMSTRONG.

STEAM COOKER.

No. 322,774. Patented July 21, 1885* INVENTOR 27% WITNESSES ATTORNEYS N. PETERS, Photo-Lithographer, Washinghm, D4 c.

STATES DAVID ML'ARMSTRONG, or BOANOKE, VIRGINIA.

STEAM-COOKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,774, dated July 21, 1885.

Application filed J une 28, 1884. (No model.)

marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The figure of the drawing. is a side View,

. partly in section, of my device.

This invention has relation to culinary implements adapted for cooking by steam; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A designates the bottom or main vessel, which is the boiler. This vessel is made of greater diameter than those which are designed to be superimposed, and it is provided with a bail, B.

0 represents the second vessel, which is also provided with abail, and is made deep, being designed to pass downward into the vessel A, and at the same time to have its upper portion extending above the level of the margin a of the same. This vessel 0 is provided with a waistflange, D, which extends around it, being downwardly and outwardly inclined, as shown at b. This flange is provided with a lip, c, which is designed to engage the marginal portion of the main vessel A. Near the upper edge of the vessel 0 openings d are made in its wall, which form the upper mouths of the exterior inclined passages, e, which extend downward to the inclined flange -D, in which the lower openings, f, of said passages are made. In this manner the interior of the vessel 0 is left without obstruction, this vessel being designed for cooking rice, potatoes, soups, &c. The cover E is adapted to beplaced on the vessel 0, or on either of the vessels F or G, which can be placed on the vessel 0 when advisable. The lower vessel, A, is provided with sufficient water to generate the steam required in cooking, said steam passing into the vessel 0 through the passages e.

If it be desired to cook other articles, the

pans Hare provided, each' having a bottom ward nearly'to the top or upper margin of the wall of the pan, and are open at their upper ends, as shown at 8. When placed over the vessel 0, the steam from the latter, passing up through the passages Z, serves to cook the article in the pan H. Several of these pans may be provided, one above another. The uppermost pan, L, is usually made with a perforated bottom, .2, through which the steam passes from the pan next below.

The pans H and L are adapted to be interchangeably fitted to the vessel 0, which is of much less diameter than the boiler A, and is fitted to the same by means of the waistflange.

A sufflcient quantity of water can be placed in the vessel A, and easily boiled, as said vessel is shallow and broad in form when compared with the vessel 0.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The combination, with the broad and shallow boiler vessel A, of the deep vessel 0, having the inclined waist-flange D, formed with exterior inclined passages, e,'opening through the flange at f, and into the vessel 0 at d, and with a lip, 0, adapted to engage the marginal portion of the vessel A, substantially as specified.

2. The steamcooking utensil herein described, consisting of the broad and shallow boiler A, the ,deep vessel 0, formed with a waist-flange, D, fitting thereon, and provided with exterior passages, e, the pan H, fitting the mouth of the vessel 0, and having the internal passages, Z, and the pan L, having the perforated bottom 2, substantially as specifled.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, DAVID M. ARMSTRONG.

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